Batu patted Li Yu's thigh: "My eldest brother Omulun is coming back from the West Sea, and I will also help my father Khan to gather the Tumut tribes in Kuku and Tun, Namur has agreed to help me, you can also do it with us, Lama Yuerji said that you are very remarkable, I also think you are the real Baturu on our grassland, Tumut needs you very much, don't be that instructor anymore, fight with us." ”

Li Yu was silent for a while, raised his head, the two pairs of eyes of Batu and Namur were looking at him expectantly, Li Yu blushed and whispered: "I can help you train the army, but I don't want to fight anymore, I have killed the Ming people, the Chahar people, the Liaodong Han people and the Khalkha people, I have killed too many people, I don't want to kill them again." ”

Batu sighed in disappointment, and Namur stood up excitedly: "Li Yu, you are a coward, what are the Chahar people?" They are robbers! They pounced like a pack of hungry wolves, looting the Mongol tribes along the way, as well as the Mongol and Han people in Bansheng, and they forcibly incorporated people and cattle into their own tribes, and those who did not want to join were killed. Batu and I are both scholars, but we still have the blood of the Tumuts, and whoever dares to break into our homeland and kill and plunder, we will fight him to the end! ”

Li Yu's head was buried lower, he had already seen the ferocity of the Chahar people when they annexed other tribes in the Xilamulun River, and the people he saw living in yurts and banshengli on the way to Fengzhou would definitely not escape the poisonous hands of the Chahars, but he also knew that as long as he put on his armor, he would fall into never-ending killing again, and he really didn't want to live that kind of bloody life.

Seeing Li Yu like this, Na Mu'er couldn't help but kick Li Yu twice, Batu quickly stopped him, and whispered to Li Yu: "I don't want to kill either, I and Na Mu'er and Ulan have been studying Buddhist scriptures and Han scriptures with the Qierji Lama since we were children, we all hate killing and looting, and we don't want to hurt others, but if others kill at the door, I will also put on armor and pick up a bow and arrow." Batu stood up and pointed to the vast field, and said categorically: "I have been from Xihai to Tumut River with my father Khan since I was seven years old, Ulan was born here, we grew up in this land, we love the grassland and Bansheng here, this is our home, we are willing to shed blood for her." Li Yu, tell me, do you love our Tumut River? Are you going to stay here as our guest, or are you going to be a Tumut? ”

Na Mu'er was impatient, and pulled Batu away: "Don't pay attention to him, he just wants to hide here as an idler, he is not our Tumut, Batu, let's go!" Without him, he could have fought the Chahars. ”

Batu and Namur left, Li Yu held his head in frustration and sat dumbfounded, of course he also loves Fengzhou, the Fengzhou River of "three mountains, one water and six fields" is fertile, rich in water and grass, the people here are not as full of violence and hatred as Zhushen of the Jin Kingdom, they are simple and kind, open-minded and cheerful, the Mongolians and Han people living in Bansheng can be neighbors and relatives, and no one will bully others, the friendliness of the people of Fengzhou makes this a rare peaceful place in this troubled world, is such a place not worth defending? Do you want to let the scene of the Xilamulun River repeat itself here? Maybe I was wrong this time.

Li Yu was thinking hard, he felt a slight footstep, he looked up and saw that Ulan had already walked to his side, just now when Li Yu was talking to Batu and Namur, Hadari led Ulan to the village for a walk, but at this time she came to him alone.

Li Yu and the girl looked at each other silently for a while, and Ulan blushed and whispered: "Father Khan said that I was going to marry me to Ordos, do you think I should go?" ”

Li Yu's heart is sinking, he doesn't know why, every time he sees Ulan, he feels that his heart is like a breeze blowing through the grassland, especially relaxed and happy, once in the spring, Ulan and he went hunting in the Barbarian Mountain, a badger suddenly jumped out of the mountain, Ulan screamed and threw himself into his arms, he immediately had a feeling of holding the girl in his arms forever.

"You, you, is there a board in Ordos? If you go there, Lama Zerji won't be able to teach you to read. Li Yu became incoherent.

"I can't disobey my father's wishes, but according to our customs, if someone robs a relative, this marriage can also be canceled, but only the bravest Baturu in our steppe is qualified to do so." Wulan's beautiful big eyes looked at Li Yu, and his voice became lower and lower: "Are you willing to rob my marriage when I get married?" ”

Li Yu nodded firmly: "Where you don't want to go, I will never let you go." ”

Ulan turned his head excitedly and ran, and Li Yu suddenly shouted at her: "You take Hadari away, I'm going to help your brother, I figured it out." ”

In front of them a new barracks was rising in front of them on a vast grassland outside Kuku and Tuncheng, where the Tumut warriors who had come from all over Fengzhou were nervously setting up tents, building wooden fences, and laying deer barns, heavily armed cavalry patrolling back and forth around the camp, and scout cavalry also sent out, from here all on alert for a radius of twenty miles.

"There are only about 2,000 people here now, and this number of people is enough to guard Kuku and Tun, is that all there are in your Tumut Twelve Division?" Li Yu shook his head and said.

"It's good to have people like this, most of these people are drawn from the tribes directly under my father Khan, and a few are sent from small tribes that have a good relationship with us, and the other tribes ignore us and don't put knives on their necks, and the Taiji of those tribes will not send us a person or a grain of rice." Batu replied with a wry smile, and both of them were silent.

"The Chahars are still far away, we are so nervous now, will we be tired of everyone? We've never done this before. Batu looked at the formation in front of him in a daze.

"Learning to camp is the most basic, you must make it a habit from now on, the Mongols have the best cavalry in the world, but they are too loose, I must teach them how to be a soldier." Li Yu replied lightly, he glanced back at the large group of officers following behind him, pointed to the east and said loudly, "We don't have time, the Chahars may come at any time, we must train our Bayala battalion in the shortest possible time." What are the Chahar people, except for the thousands of Konot cavalry of Chahar Khan, the others are a rabble, if we can have three thousand Bayara soldiers, it will be enough to sweep the Chahar, the next step of training will be very hard, anyone who is unwilling to do it or who does not do it well, whether he is an officer or a soldier, immediately tell him to get out. ”

Batu nodded, and said solemnly to the officers: "The Khan King has issued a Khan edict to give Li Yu Baturu the deputy commander of our Bayala battalion and take charge of the military affairs of the whole battalion. Namur, you are in charge of the military justice of the Bayara camp, and there are those who dare to disobey the military law. Namur shouted his command.

Batu breathed a sigh of relief and continued: "Brothers, Weining Haizi Yongshao Bu and Chahar are already tense, and a big war may break out at any time, but we Tumut can't even muster the strength of reinforcements, now we only have two thousand people, there are not many people but they are the elite of each department, this is the hope of defending our hometown, we have to train an elite army for those Taiji old men to see, Tumut still has warriors who are not afraid of bloodshed." Tengri, bless Tumut! ”

"Tengri, bless Tumut!" The officers waved their fists and chanted along with Batu.

In the middle of September, Kuku and a camp built on the mountain in the north of Tuncheng, here is the camp of the king of Shunyi, Boshuo Ketu Khan, who returned from the West Sea to take over as the king of Shunyi, did not like Kuku and Tuncheng at all, he rarely went to live in the glazed golden palace of the palace in the city, most of the time he preferred to live in a tent outside the city, only when he faced the grassland, he felt comfortable.

However, at this time, Boshuo Ketu Khan was not at all uncomfortable, he was anxiously pacing back and forth in his big tent, the two Zai Sheng stood on both sides in fear and waited for him to speak, Bo Shuo Ketu Khan finally stopped, and asked a Zai Sheng in his forties: "Ortai, have you seen the Xuanda Governor of the Ming Kingdom?" You say that they refuse to send troops to help, don't they understand that it is not good for them for Chahar Khan to come? ”

"The governor of Xuanda refused to see me, and sent Yang and the deputy envoy to lecture me, saying that we have refused to do our best in the past years, and we have not taken the court into account, and their emperor has just died, and the new emperor has just ascended the throne, and it is not appropriate to raise swords and soldiers in the country's great mourning, so they also have to report to the new emperor to make a move, so we can wait patiently for the emperor's will." Ortai shook his head and said.

"The courtiers of the Ming Kingdom are a bunch of fools, they think that the Great Khan of Chahar will have a good life when he comes, and he dreams about it, it is a hungry wolf, and he will bite a few bites when he sees anyone." Bo Shuo Ketu Khan gritted his teeth and scolded, he had no good impression of Mingguo, when he succeeded to the king of Shunyi, Mingguo did not fully support him, but neutralized the mud from it, and forced him to marry Zhongjin Hatun, but that woman was seventy! From Altan Khan to him, she married four generations of Shunyi kings, who did not marry her Ming Guo was not happy, Bo Shuo Ketu Khan felt that Ming Guo was insulting him.

"King Khan, the Ming Kingdom has always been suspicious of us, I can't wait for us to be as chaotic as possible, we also fought with them when we were in the West Sea, they won't help us, Chahar Xijin is tired of veterans, as long as we unite Ordos, Tumut, Yongshaobu and the three divisions, we may not be able to drive away Chahar Khan, Omulun Taiji is already in contact with the twelve tribes of Tumut, and we still have the strength to fight." Buyantu waved his fist and shouted, he was an old subordinate who followed Boshuo Ketu Khan from the West Sea, and he had fought with the Gansu Town and Ningxia Town of the Ming Kingdom, so he naturally didn't like the Ming Kingdom.

"Buyantu, you don't brag here, if you can beat us early, you still need to say it," Ortai has been staying in Fengzhou as an official, and is extremely familiar with the situation in Fengzhou, he strongly advocates contacting the Ming State and using the strength of the Ming State to deter Chahar, "King Khan, we can't afford to fight this battle!" Now that the twelve tribes of Tumut have their own ghosts, and Omulun will be mixed with them as soon as he returns from the Western Sea, what does he want to do? Moreover, Tumut has not fought for 60 years, and the elite soldiers of Altan Khan can no longer be found, and in recent years, Tumut has suffered disasters again, the grain harvest has failed year after year, the water on the pastures has dried up, and the forage for the livestock is not ready, how can we fight this war? ”

Ortai said that he was excited, and knelt in front of Boshuo Ketu Khan and pleaded: "King Khan, the strength of Ordos and Yongshaobu is too weak, and we and them together are not enough to resist Chahar, only the Ming State has the ability to assist us, pay tribute to the Ming State!" The Ming court has a good face, we will give them the new emperor this face, we need the food, cloth, iron and ordnance of the Ming country, even those useless Ming troops can scare Chahar Khan. ”

Boshuo Ketu Khan pondered, Ortai is calm and calculating, he is indeed telling the truth, Tumut can't afford to fight this battle, the 12 Tumut tribes that were once twisted into a rope and invincible have been torn apart, and the Taiji and Nuoyan of each ministry have their own small abacus, no one wants to listen to his orders from King Shunyi, and he was originally going to use the Naadam Conference to gather the leaders of the various tribes together in July and August to discuss the plan to resist Chahar, but those guys just don't come, and although the grandson of Zhongjin Hatun, Suang Taiji, is dead, But Su Nang's son Xi Lingse is still in Kuku and Tun, he still has some strength in his hands, this force may rebel at any time, and what is more troublesome is that the Tumut people are unwilling to fight, this year's spring cold, drought and flooding are all coming, the people and livestock can't eat, who still has the heart to fight, this battle really can't be fought!

"Just do it according to your method, we will pay tribute to the Ming Kingdom, give them this face, and then say a few nice words to them, and blame Ben Khan for not thinking about it all these years, thinking that the Ming Kingdom despises us Tumut and does not serve this Buddha well." Bo Shuo Ketu Khan sat down, helplessly nodded to Ortai, after he ascended the throne, he did not pit the Ming Kingdom, when he wanted the city reward, his hand was longer than anyone else, and when he paid tribute to the horse, it was shoddy, lacking three or four, in recent years, he simply began to cheat, just take the money and not pay the horse, and the officials of the Ming State often pretend to be confused when they get his benefits, but if this kind of thing is done more, there will be no fewer people who offend, at least the emperor of the Ming State is very dissatisfied.

"Ortai, you also have to step up your contact with the various departments of Ordos, and tell Erlinchen Jinong that the 30,000 households on the right wing are one, and he doesn't want to live well after we are finished," Boshuo Ketu Khan finished speaking to Ortai, turned his head and stared at Bu Yantu and asked sharply, "Bu Yantu, you come back from Omulun, you tell me honestly, what does Omulun want to do, I asked him to bring his troops from Xihai to Kuku and Tun, but he didn't come to see me for a long time, but hid in Daqingshan to contact the 12 departments of Tumut, did he think I was going to die?" ”

Buyantu hurriedly knelt on the ground, lowered his head and said, "King Khan, don't you know what Omulun Taiji wants to do!" He will never go back again when he comes back from that bitter place in the West Sea, and he has to plan for his future. ”

Bo Shuo Ketu Khan was so angry that he stood up again: "I gave him all the troops and pastures left in the West Sea, isn't he enough?" He fought with the Ming Kingdom in the West Sea for so many years, and the Ming Kingdom tolerated him staying in the Tumut River? No, the throne of King Shunyi is reserved for little Batu, and he doesn't want to take it from me. ”

"King Khan, Omuluntaiji assures you that he will not compete with Batu Taiji for the throne of King Shunyi, he wants the pastures and population of Kuku and Tun, as long as you promise him, he will bring his own people to meet the twelve tribes of Tumut and rush to Kuku and Tun."

"If I give him Kuku and Tun, Batu and I will probably have to go back to Xihai, so that the throne of King Shunyi will still fall on his head, Omulun has a good calculation, you go and tell him, don't be delusional." Bo Shuo Ketu Khan said with a sneer.

"King Khan, the Taiji of the Twelve Divisions have agreed to support him, they don't like Batu Taiji, and they also say that Omulun is the eldest son and should inherit the family business, and the current crisis can only be solved by relying on Omulun Taiji." Buyantu said with a sad face.

"Nonsense, Omuluntaiji has only been here for a few days, what can he do to solve the crisis," Ortai roared angrily, and then asked with a sneer: "Buyantu, have you also taken refuge in Omuluntaiji?" ”

"Tengger testifies, I, Buyantu, am absolutely loyal to the King of Khan, Ortai, don't talk nonsense," Buyantu said hurriedly, and he continued to Boshuo Ketu Khan, "Those Taiji think that Batu Taiji reads Han books, wears Hanfu, and practices Han etiquette, and has been sinicized, and Tumut cannot be succeeded by a Sinicized Taiji as the king of Shunyi, and Batu Taiji pampered the Han people in this army training, appointed civilians and slaves as officials, and drove their children away, this is because the Khan and Batu Taiji do not trust them, It also breaks the rules that have been passed down from generation to generation by our Mongols......"

"Nonsense, Batu has already told me about this, those children of the Taiji and Nuoyan families are incompetent, they know how to eat, drink and have fun, and even the ability to ride and shoot is about to be lost, and now they are going to fight, how can they do it, they deserve to be removed from their official positions, I know the person you are talking about, it is I who agreed to be the deputy commander of Batu, and the subordinates all say that he is a Mongol, when will he become Han again, it must be those useless things to spread rumors and make trouble." Bosho Ketu Khan angrily interrupted Buyantu's words.

"King Khan, I have seen that man, he is a good young man, very likeable, but the problem is that he offended both Taiji and Noyan, we Mongols have always been bloodline, sect and family to send official positions, he is good, he drove away the children of those noble families, and used a group of civilians and even slaves as officers, which is absolutely unacceptable to the Taiji! King Khan, we are going to fight with Chahar, if the Taiji of the various tribes do not make a contribution, who do we rely on to fight, can the two thousand men of Batu Taiji defeat the 100,000 people of Chahar. Buyantu hurriedly said, he paused and glanced at the king of Khan and said: "Taiji suspect that this person has a secret relationship with the Ming Kingdom, it is said that he took our people into the customs to participate in the Ming military academy parade in Datong Town, and also bribed our people with grain, this person has evil intentions!" The Taijis are worried that this person will become a problem for me. ”

Boshuo Ketu Khan was silent, if the twelve tribes of Tumut were against Batu, then it would be impossible for him to pass the throne to Batu, not to mention that Omulon was now intervening, and he helplessly set his eyes on Ortai.

Ortai sighed and said: "The Taiji are worried about their power, they can't tolerate any way to change the current status quo, we have no choice, the Taiji don't help, we can't hold the Tumut River." King Khan, let Batu Xiaotaiji do it according to the old rules, those Taiji people who want to return to the army as officials, let them continue to be officials, and the rest will wait for us to repel the Chahar people, as for the Han people that Taiji said, in fact, it doesn't matter who he is, he is just a guest living here with us, and it is inconvenient to be an official, so let him go back to avoid the limelight. ”

Boshuo Ketu Khan sneered and said, "It's just like this, doesn't Omulun want to succeed?" I'll give him this chance to take the Taiji who are following his ass to fight the Chahars. ”